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Re: Small Derivational Idea

From:Garth Wallace <gwalla@...>
Date:Wednesday, February 25, 2009, 19:20
On Wed, Feb 25, 2009 at 9:44 AM, Michael Poxon <mike@...> wrote:

> I'd always taken cran- to be simply a variant of "crane", which you can find
> in placenames such as "Cranfield", "Cranford" and others, so "Cranberry" is
> a berry that cranes like to eat.
> Mike

Diachronically, it does derive from "Crane", but I doubt most English
speakers feel a connection between those words anymore.